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Dain Do Eimhir

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MacLean's finest work is to be found in the sequence of themed poems, "Dain Do Eimhir agus Dain Eile"/ "Poems to Eimhir" and "Other Poems" (1943).

Written mostly during the 1930s, the sequence consists of forty-eight love poems addressing a universal 'eimhir', or woman.

At the heart of the poems is a sense of lamentation for lost love and opportunity yet they are also sharply political.

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Birlinn Ltd
1846970253 / 9781846970252
Paperback / softback
03/04/2008
United Kingdom
Scottish Gaelic
306 p.
22 cm
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Reprint. Published in Scotland. This translation originally published: Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2002.
DC Poetry